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BOARD OR TABLET FOR ARTISTS USE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,030, dated January 31, 1882.

Application filed July 28,1881. (Specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. FRnsHNEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Boards or Tablets for Artists Use, of which the following is aspecilication.

The invention relates to the several kinds of prepared boards and tablets for artists use, which are made ot' various materials, but generally of paper or wood, and known by different names, as mill-boards, panels, "academy-boards, &c.; and italso relates tothe preparation of the surfaces of walls for fresco or other painting. The method of obtaining this kind of surface is to apply to the board, panel, or tablet, with a brush or by other equivalent or suitable means, `a coating of oil-paint or other suitable composition, and while this coating is wet or soft to impress it with the surface of a woven fabric.

The material which I propose generally to use for theeoating is ordinary white paint, consisting of a base ot' white lead or zinc and a vehicle of linseed-oil and turpentine.. The woven fabric which I find best adapted for the purpose ot producing the impression is the fabric known as wire-cloth or wiregauze, and the method of using it which I find most suitable is to construct a roller or cylinder with a periphery of such fabric, or

to cover the periphery of a roller or cylinder of wood, metal, or any suitable material with such fabrics. The roller or cylinder thus constructed or covered is rolled over the moist or soft painted or other equivalent prepared surface, and will leave the impression of the fabric thereon, thereby giving the surface a character resembling` artists canvas. Woven fabrics of other material than wire might possibly be substituted for the wire-cloth or wire-gauze, and the fabric might be impressed on the painted or coated surface in a flat state or in other form.

The fabric may be woven in any suitable manner, either plain or twilled, or line or coarse, aceordin g to the nature of the surface -desired to be produced.

The boards, panels, or tablets may have been previously prepared in anymanner commonly employed in preparing surfaces for 5o painting, or in any other suitable manner for the reception of the coat of paint which is to be impressed.

I am aware that articles of paper wearingapparel have been provided with an imprint 5 5 or imitation of a woven fabric; but such docs not constitute my invention, nor would such articles be adapted as boards or panels for artists use, because of there being` no prepared surface of oil-paint or similar composi- 6o tion. Again, where articles of wearing-apparel have been imprinted with the imitation ot' a woven fabric, such paper is of a comparatively thin texture, and could not be used without the employment of what are termed canvas-stretchers.

I am also aware that tablets for artists use have been prepared by gluing to one or both faces ot' a piece of straw-board a strip of cotton or linen fabric, then pressing the same to 7o firmly secure them together, then applying to the covering of fabric a pigment such as is usually employed in preparing canvas for artists use, and finally, before the prepared surface is dry, treating itwith a stippling-brush, partly with a view of removing the brushmarks left in applying the pigment and partly with a view to develop'the grainsurface of the fabric to which the pigment is applied. Such invention is not claimed by me, nor does 8o it possess the characteristics of my improved tablet. in my invention the board or panel is of a substantially rigid or stiffI construction, which is first coated with a composition of .oil-paint or similar material applied directly to the surface of the board or panel itself, and which prepared surface is impressed while in a plastic or soft state to produce an imitation surface possessing the characteristics of a coated woven fabric, yet without the 9o employment of any textile fabric whatever. These boards or panels can be used by artists without the necessity of using stretchers for holding them, and they furnish very desirable substitutes for the usual canvas used by artists. They are simple in construction, less expensive to produce than similar tablets heretofore known, and will therefore be more desirable in the market.

What I claim as my invention is- As an improved article of manufacture, a I stiff or rigid tablet or board for artists use, provided with a prepared surfaceof' oil-paint applied directly to the face ot" the tablet or l board, and impressed with a woven fabric to produce an imitation grain resembling canvas io or similar texile fabric, substantially as described.

SAMUEL J. FRESHNEY. itnesscsz ANDREW J. PHILLIPS, JOHN RVEITGH. 

